Following is my second critical annotation of the semester. — In her 1997 book, Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race, Patricia Williams reflects upon the contradiction between our cultural insistence that color does not matter and the material…
Read MoreFollowing is my first critical annotation of the semester. —- In his 2011 book Disability Theory, Tobin Siebers raises a number of issues critical to disability studies. Siebers addresses the questions of how disability theory and other forms of critical…
Read MoreThe following is my third and final critical annotation for the semester. — In Stigma: An Enigma Demystified, Lerita M. Coleman Brown enters into an exploration of the nature of stigma and the ways in which it operates, both within…
Read MoreIn the paper “What does ‘disability’ mean for medical students? An exploration of the words medical students associate with the term ‘disability,’†Margaret Byron and her colleagues discuss a study they carried out to assess the concepts, descriptors, and images…
Read MoreThe following is a critical annotation I recently wrote for my graduate coursework. — In his thought-provoking 2011 article, “The Rhetoric of Ableism,†James L. Cherney discusses the ways in which rhetoric creates and perpetuates the ideology of ableism, a…
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